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place in Italian literature

...Gozzi (elder brother of Carlo) is less pungent, though directed at similar ends, and in his two periodicals—
La Gazzetta veneta and
L’Osservatore—he presented a lively chronicle of Venetian life and indicated a practical moral with much good sense. Giuseppe Baretti—an extremely controversial figure who...

role of Gozzi

...was his publication and, in large part, his writing of two periodicals similar in style to those of Addison and Steele:
La Gazzetta Veneta (1760–61), a chronicle of Venetian life, and
L’Osservatore (1761–62), a literary, philosophical, and theatrical review containing character sketches and satirical works.